What is the name of Gandhiji’s father? What is the name of Sardar Patel’s father? What is the name of Sardar Patel’s wife? None of my well informed friends had a definitive answer. This is the tragedy of Congress politics and its impact on the nation. Gandhiji led the most extra...
Although Sonia Gandhi was not pleased, she was a dutiful wife and supported her husband's decision. In 1981 Rajiv ran successfully for Parliament and took over the seat vacated by his brother. He served as the representative from the Amethi district of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern ...
The descendants of the Sindhi Kings, such as the descendants of Samma and Rai Sahasi, now read and write in Gujarati script. The descendants of the ruler Jam Abrro, who sacrificed his throne, his life, and even his sons to save one hundred and fifty women during the martyrdom of Dodo S...
Haryana in Sep 2013 thatOROP would be implemented within 100 days of his government coming to power. Then he made a promise at the heights of the Siachin on the occasion of Diwali last year thatOROP would be implemented shortly. Yet another Diwali is around the corner...
Minister Rajiv Gandhi and we had the distinction of taking he and his wife Sonia for their famous (made infamous by a persistent questioner – who wanted to be compared to a dog, since he had ascribed to himself the role of a watch-dog: Ram Jethmalani) visit to Andaman & Nicobar ...
Pitaji was to return home empty-handed but on an impulse my father said that he was ready for marriage! Marriages are made in heaven and both families accepted it. My father, just like his brothers, was a self-made man and had all the attributes of self-made men: diligence, fierce ...
First a caution before reading this post: Do you remember what Alfred Einstein said about Mahatma Gandhi? You do! Well, nevertheless I am refreshing your memory; he said, “Coming generations will scarcely believe that such a man of flesh and blood ever walked the earth.” It was the same...
It is from the1963 movie Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen. The movie had a beautiful story with a lesson for all of us. Raj Kumar (Ishwarlal) is a wealthy businessman and dislikes everything ugly. When his wife, Kamla (Achla Sachdev), becomes pregnant and gives birth to an ugly son, he ask...
Govindram introduced her to Hindi cinema for playback singing in 1942. Mangti (1942) was her first Hindi film for which she sang 10 songs;all super-hit. She sang in another film Nishane (1942) which too was a hit. In the next year she sang in three movies named Paapi, Poonji, ...